Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Mistress of NothingKate PullingerThe American debut of an award-winning novel about a ladys maids awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypts Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, d...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistGaloreMichael CrummeyAmazonThe Golden MeanAnnabel LyonAmazonToo Much HappinessAlice MunroAmazonVanishing and Other StoriesDeborah WillisAmazon

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Origin of SpeciesNino RicciWinner of the 2008 Governor Generals Award for Fiction Montreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger counters thrumming across the globe, HIV/AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through the gay population worldwide, and locally, tempers are...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAtmospheric DisturbancesRivka GalchenAmazonCockroachRawi HageAmazonThe Great KarooFred StensonAmazonThe Lost HighwayDavid Adams RichardsAmazon

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDivisaderoMichael OndaatjeIt is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - o...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistHelplessBarbara GowdyAmazonLullabies for Little CriminalsHeather O’NeillAmazonSoucouyantDavid ChariandyAmazonThe Assassin’s SongM.G. VassanjiAmazon

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Law of DreamsPeter BehrensIreland, 1846. A boy on a life-changing journey which lives in the mind long after the final page. It is 1846, the height of the Great Hunger, and young Fergus is forced to grow up fast. Following the destruction of his home, he loses not only his family b...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistDe Niro’s GameRawi HageAmazonGargoylesBill GastonAmazonThe Dodecahedron, or A FramePaul GlennonAmazonThe Fearsome ParticlesTrevor ColeAmazon

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerA Complicated KindnessMiriam ToewsMeet Nomi Nickel, the rebellious small town teenager and irresistible creation of award-winning novelist Miriam Toews....Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistNatasha and Other StoriesDavid BezmozgisAmazonNorman Bray, In the Performance of His LifeTrevor ColeAmazonRunawayAlice MunroAmazonSome Great ThingColin McAdamAmazon

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerElleDouglas GloverA 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor Generals Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of fi...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistGarbo LaughsElizabeth HayAmazonOryx and CrakeMargaret AtwoodAmazonPrivate ViewJean McNeilAmazonTen Thousand LoversEdeet RavelAmazon

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerFive WivesJoan ThomasFive Wives is a riveting, often wrenching story of evangelism and its legacy, teeming with atmosphere and compelling characters and rich in emotional impact....Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistEyeMarianne MicrosAmazonLate BreakingK.D. MillerAmazonThe InnocentsMichael CrummeyAmazonThe StudentCary FaganAmazon

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDaddy Lenin and Other StoriesGuy VanderhaegheAmong these nine stories: A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head. He learns about life in short order and there is no turning back. An actors penchant for hiding behind a role, on...Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistHow You Were BornKate CayleyAmazonOutlineRachel CuskAmazonThe Evening ChorusHelen HumphreysAmazonThe Winter FamilyClifford JackmanAmazon

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDo Not Say We Have NothingMadeleine ThienWinner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistThe BreakKatherena VermetteAmazonThe ParcelAnosh IraniAmazonWillem de Kooning's PaintbrushKerry Lee PowellAmazonYiddish for PiratesGary BarwinAmazon

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerWe'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some NightJoel Thomas HynesA blackly comic and heart-rending odyssey by the inimitable author of Down to the Dirt Scrappy tough guy and three-time loser Johnny Keough is going a little stir-crazy awaiting trial for an alleged assault charge involving his girlfriend, Madonna, and a t...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAll the Beloved GhostsAlison MacLeodAmazonLost in SeptemberKathleen WinterAmazonThe Water BeetlesMichael KaanAmazonUncertain Weights and MeasuresJocelyn ParrAmazon